Re: Reordering etc/NEWS

[Juanma Barranquero]

On 5/11/07, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

> The MAINTAINERS file was born out of the last similar discussion we
> had; it was supposed to become a starting point for bringing people on
> board who would volunteer to become our experts for specific areas.
> You can take a look at it: since its introduction in November 2001, it
> got exactly 4 non-trivial changes, and an alarming amount of core
> files and packages still have no responsible expert associated with
> them.

Although what you say it's true, it's also true that many elisp
packages, for example, have maintainers (which varying degrees of
"officialness") whose commitment is not explicitly stated in
MAINTAINERS: ada-mode, desktop, kmacro, ido, bookmark, eshell,
customize, vc, tramp, ibuffer, ps-*, gnus, etc. Moreover, many
packages are simple, or very infrequently updated, and do not need a
maintainer per se (not that it would be bad they had it, of course :)

So MAINTAINERS is not a good indicator of the status of support.

            Juanma